. left to start . We chose not to develop this business internally, and we chose not to invest in analytics firms because I never wanted to have a conflict of interest with our clients. I didn't want to profit from selling out your financial privacy
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Is there gov demand? Obviously. We have our internal tools that we use but productizing those tools and selling them, driving competition and accelerating development in the anti-privacy space is at odds with our values. How could one resist using client data to gain an edge?
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Love this. Well done addressing it. I expected you to, though.
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chainanalysis is necesaary to exist to force people improving coins' privacy
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That's the sad part. By not doing it themselves, they sell out their clients.
Chain Analysis works by the company keeping track of who can ID which addresses, so there is a huge network effect. The more companies work with one of them, the more intel they have to sell to others.
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Not gonna lie , this statement is a bit confusing🤔.
1. Is it possible that your vendor cross-references data from multiple clients/sources?
2. Is it necessary to sell clients data when using in-house analytics? (or did you mean rigging yourself w/bad incentives?).
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1. Sure, it's possible they are buying data from their own customers. All vendors are aggregating data from multiple sources.
2. In-house analytics also uses data from many sources. I meant that having good tools/data doesn't mean you need to sell it.
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